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 Terve-Flius. N �his therefore is an excellent ftatute, I wifl I could fly that it was tolerably obferved 5 for of In:,: years tle tp:r:t of Gaming has no where preva:k.a more than in o)'grd, and (what is more remark:. ble) amongft tl,efiniors of the univerfity. I cannot indeed fly that the univetfity has had very gre.?t !offes upon this account, becaufc I do not hear tint e complains. But if Gaming had no other fii ccnfequcnces than the fetting of a bad example to the youth there, it ought for that reafon only to bc reftrained; for according to the poet, $i d.mnofa �enem jurat alta, ludit e3 ke. 13ullatus, parvogue eMem novat arma fritillo. The fame ttatute prohit;its them nifo from hun- ting deers hares, or ionits, with dogs of any ferrets, nets, or toils; and from carrying gm:s ,or ero3-bows, or ufinv hawks  which is nifo frequent,y vi(htecl; but thi' does not give me half fo much die uneafine as the 13ox and  for what fignifi�s a little toachi, or the robbing of an hm.roofl now and then, to the infinite etil$ which. Gaming is teen every day to produce ? To, conclude5 if any one will give, himfell the troub:e to look into ferjeant lVlI.t.�us s account of' Camtutu-, he will find, that the fame negle& of atutes is co.mphine of there, and that the fame Rqrmation s wifl'd for by all impartial judge.-', nd true lovers of learning. TER-

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